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vankuria

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14. What most people don't realize

Mon Sep 3, 2012, 09:47 AM

Sep 2012

is how essential most low wage jobs are. Those minimum wage jobs keep businesses going, I mean what would they do without, cashiers, warehouse workers, restuarant workers, cleaners, etc.? At a glance these jobs may not seem important but they serve the public in a very important way and without them businesses would fold. In a nutshell businesses could not survive without the "little people" who make it run.

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I can't believe a teacher friend put this on Facebook [View all] Courtesy Flush Sep 2012 OP

Demonizing the poor, denying reality. Scuba Sep 2012 #1

all manner of reasons motivate people to teach including the idea roguevalley Sep 2012 #15

when I was a substitute teacher central scrutinizer Sep 2012 #19

I know and have known incredibly hard working people who make minimum wage gollygee Sep 2012 #2

And thanks to the corporations that run this country Freddie Sep 2012 #11

1.7 million out of 73.9 million are paid the minimum wage. dkf Sep 2012 #22

Deceptive stat. There are plenty more earning their state minimum wage. slampoet Sep 2012 #26

And you think the assertion the minimum wage is the prevailing wage is less deceptive? dkf Sep 2012 #28

You don't know what I think. So don't operate that way, please. slampoet Sep 2012 #53

And many millions more earning just over minimum Freddie Sep 2012 #27

I hardly think that even $8 is the prevailing wage. dkf Sep 2012 #29

Let's say $8 - $14 is becoming a WHOLE lot more prevalent, in an economy... jtuck004 Sep 2012 #42

Depends on the region. I know tour company guide/drivers start at $8.00 per hour 1monster Sep 2012 #46

And ANOTHER 2.2 million earned BELOW the $7.25 minimum wage SunSeeker Sep 2012 #36

I remember when garbage collectors (an icky, labor intensive job) were among the 1monster Sep 2012 #44

Exactly. Give them a taste of their own medicine. See how they like it! reformist2 Sep 2012 #3

This message was self-deleted by its author 1GirlieGirl Sep 2012 #4

Not surprising. A lot of K-12 teachers are very conservative. Iris Sep 2012 #5

Republican Teachers Freddie Sep 2012 #6

I know a SCIENCE teacher who doesn't believe in evolution. Aeroette Sep 2012 #51

Your friend is a horse's ass titaniumsalute Sep 2012 #7

I know a woman who took her College Education off of her Resume' rbrnmw Sep 2012 #8

Love your $5M bonus? CJCRANE Sep 2012 #9

I must be missing something here. When I read that I see an anti-Republican asjr Sep 2012 #10

I think it's saying that if you get paid minimum wage CJCRANE Sep 2012 #12

The reader is supposed to identify with the mean-spirited guy in the poster. reformist2 Sep 2012 #13

What most people don't realize vankuria Sep 2012 #14

The 50s guy in a white suit with his left hand making a toy gun KurtNYC Sep 2012 #16

Your teacher friend is a "good German", sadly with young minds in his/her care. nt mother earth Sep 2012 #17

That sounds ambiguous Onlooker Sep 2012 #18

Dead on! They want us fighting and blaming each other. What we need to tell Republicans we Dustlawyer Sep 2012 #20

What is completely STUPID about this is... VPStoltz Sep 2012 #21

Only 2.3% of the population is paid the minimum wage. dkf Sep 2012 #24

So 2.3 percent of the population is OK with you? abelenkpe Sep 2012 #37

So by that logic I should have been GIVEN five buisinesses, because I had more skills than the owner slampoet Sep 2012 #23

I don't think there's any ambiguity to it. HughBeaumont Sep 2012 #25

I think that's exactly what it is about gollygee Sep 2012 #31

I think a lot of people who say this are brainwashed. TBF Sep 2012 #33

I've never understood why it's ok for businesses to pay workers so little abelenkpe Sep 2012 #41

Taught 30 years ... Bigmack Sep 2012 #30

I don't know if it's ambiguous RVN VET Sep 2012 #32

When I was a minimum wage person we were expected to be nose to the grindstone at brewens Sep 2012 #34

There's a boatload of bigotry stuffed into this "clever" little graphic. Chorophyll Sep 2012 #35

Teachers have already taken pay cuts. In some states, teachers are now being forced to 1monster Sep 2012 #38

Parents are at the nexus of this problem. How can they foster motives that they don't patrice Sep 2012 #39

it would be a fine poster IF alc Sep 2012 #40

From a teacher's point of view that message can actually be positive lunatica Sep 2012 #43

Post this comment in reply: The Midway Rebel Sep 2012 #45

Minimum wage means 1 thing if I could pay you less I would Heather MC Sep 2012 #47

Last week Iwillnevergiveup Sep 2012 #48

It also short shrifts their payroll taxes so they get lower UI and Social Security payouts. Sirveri Sep 2012 #54

FB does allow you to 'unfriend' people and even block them (sort of like 'Ignore' coalition_unwilling Sep 2012 #49

Why would you be friends with someone like that? Zoeisright Sep 2012 #50

Can you imagine being the student of this tsuki Sep 2012 #52

If Romney and Ryan have their way mykpart Sep 2012 #55

And here's the response: NYC Liberal Sep 2012 #56